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Box 2 of Harmony Valley Farm contained:
- Spinach
- Salad Mix
- Parsnips
- Sunchokes
- Sorrel
- Nettles
- Rhubarb
- Chives
- Red Radish
- Hon Tsai Tai
- Green Garlic
- Garden Herb Pack
Fri 14 May 2010
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Box 2 of Harmony Valley Farm contained:
Fri 11 Sep 2009
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Week 18 of Harmony Valley Farm‘s CSA (blog) contained the following:
Another great week of veggies. Delicious!
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Fri 28 Aug 2009
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Week 17 of Harmony Valley Farm‘s CSA (blog) contained the following:
As the veggies have gotten more familiar, we’ve been able to eat a lot more of them in any given week. Â We ate pretty much everything this week. Â Last weekend we actually bought a bunch of small cucumbers and pickled them! Â Hopefully you’ll be seeing more about this later.
This week we took part in Harmony Valley’s Produce Plus program. Â They just started offering it this week, but you are able to purchase quantities of certain vegetables that they have a lot of sitting around the farm. Â Most of them are “seconds” which have minor defects that prevent them from being sold on the market. Â Instead of letting them go to waste Harmony Valley is allowing their members to purchase them at reasonable rate. We bought 25 pounds of tomatoes for $25. Yikes! Â We hope to spend some time this weekend canning them.
Wish us luck!
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Sun 16 Aug 2009
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Week 15 of Harmony Valley Farm‘s CSA (blog) contained the following:
I enjoy reading about how others use their box and have enjoyed Simple, Good, and Tasty’s discussion about local food and their Harmony Valley CSA. Â A recent post highlighted a more unique use of a CSA. Â CSA Pizza is sold by Galactic Pizza, a local pizza joint. Â The pizza aptly uses food from their weekly box, which happens to also come from Harmony Valley.
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Fri 17 Jul 2009
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Week 11 of Harmony Valley Farm‘s CSA (blog) contained the following:
This seems like it is our biggest box yet. Fortunately, it is pretty much standard veggies that we’ve heard of before and pretty much know how to use. Christy has been soliciting feedback on what to do with so many beets (we still haven’t used them from the last few weeks). So any creative ideas are welcome!
Below is a stir-fry that was used with pretty much all CSA veggies.
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Fri 10 Jul 2009
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Week 10 of Harmony Valley Farm‘s CSA (blog) contained the following:
Sadly, we will be missing the barn dance on Saturday. Work gets in the way.
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Wed 8 Jul 2009
Posted by crossn81 under CSA
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I was amazed at how difficult it was to find a recipe for Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam that used both real strawberries and real rhubarb. Most just called for adding a strawberry jello packet in with your fresh rhubarb. That is great for an “easy” recipe but I wanted to use our CSA fresh strawberries and rhubarb.
I finally found a recipe that looked like it would work.  It called for a 1/2 bottle of Pectin which seemed like an odd way to measure something. What if the bottle I bought came in a different size than the one they used? My wonderful wife was already at the store so I called and asked her to get a bottle of pectin. After much searching she finally found a box that had 2 liquid pectin packets in it. And she purchased some jars.
I ultimately used the directions that came with the box (found online here). It turned out quite well, even though I had to fudge along as we don’t own a true canner and it said to use one and talked about processing jam, etc.
I used:
Bring boiling-water canner, half full with water, to simmer. Wash jars and screw bands in hot soapy water; rinse with warm water.That was the part I forgot. I had put the jars into the dishwasher on the “sterilize cylce” so everything was really hot. But later I was forced to quickly boil a lot of water in separate pots. Pour boiling water over flat lids in saucepan off the heat. Let stand in hot water until ready to use. Drain jars well before filling. |
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Measure 2-1/4 cups prepared strawberries into 6- or 8-qt. saucepot; set aside. Finely chop unpeeled rhubarb. Place in 2-qt. saucepan. Add 1/2 cup water. Bring to boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer 2 min. or until rhubarb is soft. Measure exactly 1-3/4 cups prepared rhubarb into saucepot with strawberries; mix well. |
Stem and crush strawberries thoroughly, one layer at a time. Measure 2-1/4 cups prepared strawberries into 6- or 8-qt. saucepot; set aside. Finely chop unpeeled rhubarb. |
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Place in 2-qt. saucepan. Add 1/2 cup water. Bring to boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer 2 min. or until rhubarb is soft. Measure exactly 1-3/4 cups prepared rhubarb into saucepot with strawberries; mix well. |
Stir sugar into fruit mixture in saucepot. Add butter to reduce foaming. I didn’t use any butter. Bring mixture to full rolling boil (boil that doesn’t stop bubbling when stirred) on high heat, stirring constantly. Stir in pectin. Return to full rolling boil and boil 1 min., stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Skim off any foam with metal spoon. I didn’t remove the foam, it was a really thin layer and seemed like I was going to waste a lot of jam. |
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Ladle immediately into prepared jars, filling to within 1/8 inch of tops. Wipe jar rims and threads. Cover with two-piece lids. Screw bands tightly. Place jars on elevated rack in canner. Lower rack into canner. Water must cover jars by 1 to 2 inches; add boiling water, if necessary. Cover; bring water to gentle boil. Process 10 min. As I mentioned I had to quickly boil a lot of water in separate pots and then added them to our large kettle, which works quite well as a canner. |
Remove jars and place upright on towel to cool completely. After jars cool, check seals by pressing middles of lids with finger. (If lids spring back, lids are not sealed and refrigeration is necessary.) |
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Enjoy! |
I think it took longer than the 45 minutes that it suggested not including the 24 hour waiting period. Part of that was obviously because it was my first time making jam and also because I did it the hard way! It is quite delicious and we’ve almost eaten our first jar already!!
For those who might be interested:
Nutrition (per serving)
Calories 40
Total fat 0g
Saturated fat 0g
Cholesterol 0mg
Sodium 0mg
Carbohydrate 11g
Dietary fiber 0g
Sugars 10g
Protein 0g
Vitamin A 0%DV
Vitamin C 2%DV
Calcium 0%DV
Iron 0%DV